Tlaking to people who have a polycrub, we will (probably ) need to do something about ventilation , so something that can be opened will be necessary .
But where ? how big ? How to open and shut ?
So the plan was just to sheet the end , leave it a while and then see what we ended up needing or using.
So I needed to join the sheets together ,then offer them up into the gap, and then fic them in place.
I chose a very still day - not that common here.
Cutting the sheets to size was fairly strightforward , as suggestd by the construction guide. The next step was the join them , offer them up into the gap and fix them in place.
Step 1 was straightforward
The next bit -joining them together, certainly wasnt . It would have been more straightforward if id had a level , grassy area adjacent , the you can lay them all out on . But I didn't. Outside is surrounded by the hard standing and lost of hardocde, and stone chips. So it was inside the polycrub - which i had started to fill with soil.
Which wasnt level. And was stiff wet and squidgy , which you could sink into .
And the trimmed sheets are up to a couple of metres long.
And even with very light winds , the joining strips that as so tricky, fiddly, frustrating , and awkward to fit, arent robust enough to hold the sheets together, even in mild winds.
So after a frustrating few hours this was abandoned. All I had acheived was sore fingers and scratched plastic.
So plan B is much as the other end . Fit the panels, leaving the gap in the middle to be converted to a door , or window, or something .
At a later date - ie later in the week, before the stronger westerlies ( the open end of the polycrub is facing west ) arrive.
And weve put the first plants inside the polycrub.
An asparagus bed. soil, sand and grit, in ridges.
Watch this space for the first pickings of asparagus next year
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